Process and apparatus for the treatment of fluids



A. G. SAHEURS Marh 9, 1943. A

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Paten'ted Mar. 9, 1943 PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR THE TREAT- MENT OF FLUID-S Albert Gaston Saheurs, Barenton, France; vested in the Alien Property Custodian Application June 28, 1939, Serial No. 281,751 In France September 22, 1938 13 Claims.

The object of the present invention is to produce eiiiuvia or emanations through a development of electrostatic energy.

The invention also has for its object to utilize said emanations for the treatment of certain fluids.

The invention has for an object the regeneration of the blood of a live creature, by means of the above mentioned emanations.

The invention first relates to a process for the treatment of a fluid, according to which quicksilver is disposed in a closed chamber; the quicksilver is comminuted so as to develop by friction on the walls of the chamber an electrostatic energy producing an efiiuvium; the fluid to be treated is exposed to said eiiluvium.

The invention also extends to the case where quicksilver is disposed in a stationary closed chamber in the neighbourhood of the movable closed chamber; the movable closed chamber is displaced so as to develop, by friction on the walls of the movable chamber an electrostatic energy producing an efiluvium; the fluid to be treated is exposed to said efiluvium.

The invention also relates to the case where radioactive emanations are added to the atmosphere of the closed chamber.

The invention also relates to the case where a low pressure atmosphere containing the rare gases in the air is created in the closed chamber.

The invention also extends to a process for the treatment of the blood of a living creature according to which blood is drawn from a blood vessel of said living creature, the air is excluded; said blood is circulated in a tight conduit, the blood which circulates in said conduit is submitted to the efiiuvia of a quicksilver lamp, the blood treated, sheltered from the air is reintroduced into a blood vessel of the living creature.

The invention also extends to a process for treating the blood of a living creature according to which the live creature himself is submitted to the action of the quicksilver lamps efiluvia.

The invention also extends to the various apparatuses necessary for performing these processes.

These apparatuses comprise the characteristics which result from the following description and especially from the claims appended at the end of said description.

Installations for the performances of these processes are represented, by way of example, on the accompanying drawings on which:

Figs. 1 and 2 are front views of two different arrangements of lamps in accordance with the invention,

Fig. 3 is a plan view of another lamp according to the invention,

Fig. 4 is a front view corresponding to Fig. 3.

Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively a front view and a plan view of another lamp in accordance with the invention,

Figs. 7 and 8 are respectively a front view and a sectional axial view of another lamp in accordance with the invention,

Figs. 9 and 10 are side and plan views of an apparatus for the regeneration of the blood,

Fig. 11 is a longitudinal sectional view of another apparatus permitting the trcatment of the whole body of human being,

Fig. 12 is a detail view of one or" the tubes of the preceding apparatus.

The process in accordance with the invention consists in treating the liquid, which, for example, it is desired to regenerate, with the efliuvium created by setting in motion a certain quantity of quicksilver in a closed chamber.

Said closed chamber is constituted (Fig. 1) by a glass envelope l, forming a lamp, mounted on a frame 2, carried on pivot 3. The lamp I contains a drop of quicksilver movable in front of a stationary glass tube 5, containing quicksilver drops 6 6 This whole is disposed in the liquid which it is desired to regenerate, then an oscillating motion according to f f is communicated to the lamp I by means of the handle I.

This motion determines the friction of the drop of quicksilver on the walls of lamp I, and further, the development of a certain quantity of electrostatic energy which assures the precipitation of the impurities contained in the liquid surrounding the lamp l and the stationary tube 5.

A two-lamp system is thus worked out: a stationary one 5, the other lamp 1 being movable; said two lamps disposed in front ofueach other act by induction one on the other and then develop, respectively, the desired efliuvium.

Many changes may be brought to the above described device without going beyond the limits of the invention.

In particular, in the device of Fig. 2, the lamp l is mounted on trunnions 9 9 carried by bearings M which permits said lamp to rotate; the walls of said lamp have humps or corrugations or wrinkles H and unevennesses which, while the lamp is rotating, compel the quicksilver to roll over the corrugations forming tiny cascades: the formation of the effluvium is thus facilitated.

Stationary tubes containing quicksilver at 6 are disposed on each side of the lamp I, as near as possible to said lamp I; a toothed wheel I2 is provided to set said lamp in rotation.

In the case of Figs. 3 and 4, the lamp I rotates around a vertical axis I3 while the stationary chamber 5 assumes the general shape of a torus surrounding said lamp I. The quicksilver is quite visible at 4 in the lamp I and at 6 in the chamber 5.

The device of Figs. 5 and 6 is similar to the previous one, but the stationary chamber 5 is placed above the movable system formed by the rotary frame I4 carrying lamps I provided respectively with quicksilver drops 4 During the rotation of the movable system I4I the quicksilver I of the lamps I is driven by the centrifugal force towards the top of said lamps.

In the device of Figs. 7 and 8, the lamp I assumes the shape of a torus mounted on a frame I5, which is, itself, mounted on a spindle I6.

The stationary chamber 5 surrounds completely the lamp I, which has, on the other hand, baflles or corrugations or humps IT as in the case of Fig. 2.

The quicksilver 4 tends to accumulate constantly at the lowest point and flows along the inside walls of the lamp I. When said lamp I rotates, the baflles II drive the quicksilver 4, then let it fall again. This motion creates a tension inside the lamp; there results an electric field which is influenced by the quicksilver in the stationary capacity 5.

In all the above examples it is an advantage to introduce in the lamp I or in the chamber 5 a rare gas (neon, krypton, etc.) under small pressure. An increase in the electrostatic effect is thus obtained.

The electrical energy developed makes itself visibly known through luminous phenomena. The color of these lights depends on the pressure inside the isolating body and on the nature of the filling gas. It is an advantage to consider a pressure from 4 to mm. of quicksilver.

Radioactive emanations may also be added to the atmosphere of the lamp I, in order to further intensify the formation of effluvia.

The above processes and devices may be used in very many applications, to which the invention is adaptable.

(a) Sterilization-To destroy, for example, the injurious ferments in milk, said milk is passed through receivers containing lamps analogous to the preceding ones; in this case, a wave length different from that applied for regenerating water is selected.

(b) Regeneration of the blood of a human being.A first type of apparatus for this application is represented on Figs. 9 and 10. The apparatus comprises a stand 69, the top of which supports a pump I0 driven by a motor II. The regeneration device represented in axial crosssection on Fig. 10 is composed of a series of lamps I2 I2 of annular shape, emitting radiations of various wave lengths. Said annular lamps are mounted on a cylindrical frame I3 set in rotation by the motor I I.

A glass tube 14 is used for carrying the patients blood. Said tube I4 passes through the axis of the cylindrical frame I3, then connects to the pump 10 of the type used for blood transfusion.

Said pump I0 draws the blood from the patients blood vessel and discharges it into another blood vessel through the tube 14 after passing through the regeneration device I2.

The blood passing through the tube I4 is submitted:

(1) To a visible and invisible radiation,

(2) To radiations of different frequencies and of very short Wave length emitted by the lamps 12 I2 Under these influences, the blood which passes through the tube :14 undergoes the following transformations:

(a) First, a physical change takes place in said blood, which reduces the size of the globules and which drives the liquid of crystallization to the surface of said globules. The spheres which surround the substance of said extremely small globules form a very strong dielectric which subsists for a few days.

(b) On the other hand, the globules get charged with electricity; due to their circulation in the patients blood tubes, said globules charged with electricity partially lose same in the arteries and veins cells by communicating to them a part of their electric load with the same frequencies.

(c) The treated blood coagulates with greater difficulty.

(d) The blood so treated dissolves the crystals which in certain cases (arterio-sclerosis for example) cover the walls of the blood tubes, and thus gives again to these tubes their elasticity.

The patients cells are thus put anew into service and there results for said patient a strong increase of his life potential and an important improvement of his case.

By means of the above process, one fifth of the quantity of the patients blood can be treated, for example.

With the apparatuses in accordance with the invention the whole body of a human being can also be treated; a way of performing said apparatus is shown on Figs. 11 and 12. It comprises essentially a series of tubes I00 I00 forming quicksilver lamps; said tubes are mounted on a cylindrical cage IOI which rotates around a horizontal axle :cm and is driven by a toothed ring I02 and a pinion I03 for example. The cylindrical cage IOI, the free inside diameter of which is of about one meter is fixed to two extreme rings I04 I04 which rotate in large size ball bearings I05 I05 A stationary plate I06 is mounted in the cage IOI and rests on both ends on feet I0'I I0! outside the cage. On said plate I06 a stretcher I08 may be placed on which the patient would rest.

The patients body is thus submitted as a whole to the radiations emitted by the tubes I00 It is an advantage to provide on the inner surface of the ring, constituted by each tube I00, deformations I I0, which on one hand, insure the friction of the quicksilver on the walls of the tube and, on the other hand, engage themselves on the bars of the cage IOI thus insuring the fixation of said tube on said cage (Fig. 12)

In this Way, a maximum radiation of the tubes towards the inside of the cage, i. e. towards the patient, is obtained.

The present invention makes it possible, by means of the above described processes and apparatuses, to perform a large number of fluid treatments and to effect condensation of vapors and purification and regeneration of liquids, with simple and practical apparatuses.

I claim:

1. An annular irradiating tube containing a small quantity of mercury and provided on the portion of its interior surface nearest its axis with humps, means for supporting an object to be irradiated within the circular space surrounded by said annular tube, and means for causing relative rotating motion of said supporting means and said annular tube for causing said mercury to cascade over said humps and radiate.

In an irradiating system, a plurality of annular irradiating tubes mounted coaxially, each of said tubes contain ng a small quantity of mercury and being provided on the portion of its interior surface nearest its axis with humps, said annular tubes being adapted to emit radiations of different frequencies, means for supporting an object to be irradiated substantially along the axis of said annular tubes, and means for causing said annular tubes to rotate about their axis and cause said mercury to cascade over said humps and radiate.

3. In an apparatus for irradiating blood of a living subject, a substantially straight exposure tube, means for conveying blood from the circulatory system of the, subject to said exposure tube,

means for conveying irradiated blood from said exposure tube back to the circulatory system of the subject, an annular irradiating tube containing a small quantity of mercury and mounted with its axis in said exposure tube, and means for rotating said annular tube about its axis and displacing the mercury therein and thereby irradiating the blood flowing through said exposure tube.

4. An irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, said annular tube being provided on the portion of its interior surface nearest its axis with humps over which said mercury cascades as said annular tube rotates.

5. In an apparatus for irradiating blood of a living subject, a substantially straight exposure tube, means for conveying blood from the circulatory system of the subject to said exposure tube, means for conveying irradiated blood from said exposure tube back to the circulatory system of the subject, a plurality of annular irradiating tubes mounted ccaxially with their common axis in said exposure tube, each of said annular tubes containing a small quantity of mercury, said annular tubes being adapted to emit radiations of different frequencies, and means for causing said annular tubes to rotate about their axis and thereby irradiate the blood flowing through said exposure tube.

6. In an apparatus for irradiating blood of a living subject, a substantially straight exposure tube, means for conveying blood from the circulatory system of the subject to said exposure tube, means for conveying irradiated blood from said exposure tube back to the circulatory system of the subject, a plurality of annular irradiating tubes mounted coaxially with their common axis in said exposure tube, each of said tubes .containing a small quantity of mercury and being provided on the portion of its interior surface nearest its axis with humps, said annular tubes being adapted to emit radiations of different frequencies, and means for causing said annular tubes to rotate about their axis and cause said mercury to cascade over said humps and radiate.

'7. An annular irradiating tube containing a small quantity of mercury and provided on its interior surface with humps, means for supporting an object to be irradiated within the circular space surrounded by said annular tube, and means for causing relative rotating motion of said supporting means and said annular tube for causing said mercury to cascade over said humps and radiate.

8. In an irradiating system, a plurality of annular irradiating tubes mounted coaxially, each of said tubes containing a small quantity of mercury and being provided on its interior surface wtih humps, said annular tubes being adapted to emit radiations of different frequencies, means for supporting an object to be irradiated substantially along the axis of said annular tubes, and means for causing said annular tubes to rotate about their axis and cause said mercury to cascade over said humps and radiate.

9. An irradiating apparatus according to claim 3, said annular tube being provided on its interior surface with humps over which said mercury cascades as said annular tube rotates.

10. In an apparatus for irradiating blood of a living subject, a substantially straight exposure tube, means for conveying blood from the circulatory system of the subject to said exposure tube, means for conveying irradiated blood from said exposure tube back to the circulatory system of the subject, a plurality of annular irradiating tubes mounted coaxially with their common axis in said exposure tube, each of said tubes containing a small quantity of mercury and being provided on its interior surface with humps, said annular tubes being adapted to emit radiations of different frequencies, and means for causing said annular tubes to rotate about their axes and cause said mercury to cascade over said humps and radiate.

11. In an irradiating apparatus, an irradiating tube having an axis of symmetry and containing a small quantity of mercury, mounting means for rotatably mounting said tube for rotation about said axis of symmetry, and supporting means for supporting an object to be irradiated adjacent said tube and symmetrically with reference to said axis.

12. In an irradiating apparatus, an irradiating tube having circular symmetry and containing a small quantity of mercury, mounting means for rotatably mounting said tube for'rotation about its axis of circular symmetry, and supporting means for supporting an object to be irradiated adjacent said tube and symmetrically with reference to said axis of circular symmetry.

13. In an irradiating apparatus, an irradiating tube having circular symmetry and containing a small quantity of mercury, said tube being provided on its interior surface with humps over which said mercury cascades as said tube rotates,

mounting means for rotatably mounting said tube for rotation about its axis of circular symmetry, and supporting means for supporting an object to be irradiated adjacent said tube and symmetrically with reference to said axisof circular symmetry.

ALBERT GASTON SAHEURS. 

